Finance is not the only industry looking for a way to profit from even the small, unstable quantum computers that mark the current state of the art; sectors from aerospace to pharmaceuticals are also hunting for a quantum advantage. But there are rea...
High-tech finance 高科技金融 Quantum for quants 量化交易量子化 Wall Street's latest shiny new thing: quantum computing 华尔街新宠:量子计算 The finance industry has had a long and profitable relationship with computing. It was a...
In a presentation to investors the studio announced a blitz of new content for its Disney+ streaming service: ten Star Wars series, ten more based on Marvel comic books, 15 other new original series and 15 feature films. By 2024 Disney+ will be spend...
Business 商业版块 Cinema and streaming 大荧幕和流媒体 Big bets on the small screen 大举押注小荧幕 Hollywood is pivoting to home entertainment 好莱坞正在转向家庭娱乐领域 If any industry could use help from Wonder Woman,...
The pandemic was a boon for some. Once the shock of lockdowns faded, stockmarkets climbed towards new records, in part because of the soaring share prices of tech firms. Zoom meetings became a feature for office employees sent home to work remotely (...
The world this year 本年全球要闻回顾 By late January cases were widely reported in Germany, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam. Markets were rattled, fearing disruption to global supply chains that run through China. By late February the World Health...
Now he was pumped for information which his vestigial loyalty to the service forbade him to speak of, as well as for solutions to mysteries that he knew nothing about. (Who killed Robert Maxwell? Rupert Murdoch asked him, suddenly, when they lunched...
At the end of the avenue lay a games field, with a goalpost askew and a few boys playing. Their bicycles were sprawled by the path. Across the field stood a small green tin pavilion, like a bus shelter. There Smiley had found, at head-height, the shi...
Yet this effort to stamp norms onto a covert and chaotic arena of competition has been unsuccessful. For one thing, it is not always simple to define what is honourable, in Mr Haydens parlance, and what is not. If stealing a policy document is kosher...
The campaign showed top-tier operational tradecraft, says FireEye, a cyber-security firm that was itself a victim. Orions ubiquity explains why so many organisations were affected. SolarWinds says that fewer than 18,000 customers may have been struck...